Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

The fossil discovered is that of an extinct dolphin-like reptile estimated to have lived more than 100 million years ago in ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils.

They say the new fossil, which doesn’t have a species name yet, is a member of a group called the gorgonopsians. Study co-author Dr. Ken Angielczyk, of the Field Museum in Chicago, said: ...

But the new fossil is dated to between 270 and 280 million ... “We know that this is a carnivorous animal, a characteristic shared by all gorgonopsians worldwide. "The saber teeth are a common ...

A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the fossil of the oldest saber-toothed animal predating the dinosaurs. Credits: Illustration by Henry Sutherland Sharpe, CC BY 4.0, Nature. Archaeologists have ...